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Jewish students, blocked from UCLA campus, file suit against school

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The University of California, Los Angeles allegedly allowed pro-Hamas protesters to prevent Jewish students from entering campus this spring, according to a lawsuit. On Wednesday, three Jewish students—Yitzchok Frankel, Joshua Ghayoum and Eden Shemuelian—filed suit against their school, charging...

Heads of Yale, UCLA, U of M called to testify before House Ed Committee

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The administrators of three more universities have been asked to appear before congressional representatives to answer for the antisemitism manifesting at their institutions. On Tuesday, the Committee on Education and the Workforce announced a hearing for...
From left: Em Habanim Board of Trustees Member Richard Elgrich, Em Habanim President Albert Ifrah, Dr. Aomar Boum and Rabbi Joshua Bittan. Photo courtesy of Em Habanim.

Los Angeles Jews honor Muslim scholar of Moroccan Jewry

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With the red carpet rolled out and Moroccan music filling the Em Habanim synagogue in Los Angeles last week, more than 400 of the city’s Moroccan and Sephardic Jews gathered to honor Moroccan Muslim...

UCLA launches Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

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UCLA has opened North America’s first permanent academic home for the study of music of American Jewish experience. Housed in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the new Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish...
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College leaders: It’s time to stop Jew-hatred on campus

The anti-Semitism that Rose Ritch endured at the University of Southern California has been all over the media. Ritch resigned as vice president of USC’s undergraduate student government after she was harassed for months...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the civil-rights march in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park. Md.

Assassinating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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A petition demanding that accounting professor Gordon Klein be fired from his position at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business, where he has been teaching for nearly four decades, has garnered more than 21,000 signatures...
Royce Hall, the main building at the University of California, Los Angeles. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

UCLA to host its first-ever American Jewish Music Festival

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UCLA will host its first American Jewish Music Festival on March 1 under the banner “Music Crossing Boundaries.” The all-day event is funded by the Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music at the UCLA...
UCLA Royce Hall. Credit: Flickr.

US Education Department investigating UCLA over anti-Semitism complaint

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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) notified StandWithUs (SWU) on Friday that it has accepted its complaint alleging that UCLA violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and has opened the matter for full investigation on the merits. SWU alleged...
A Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) display at UCLA. Credit: SJP UCLA via Facebook.

UCLA students speak out against upcoming National Students for Justice in Palestine conference

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Tens of thousands of students returned to the Westwood campus of University of California, Los Angeles, on Sept. 27 for the first day of classes. However, third-year student Justin Feldman, 20, a political science...

UCLA’s tango with hate and anti-Semitism

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Students for Justice in Palestine will host its annual national conference in November at the University of California, Los Angeles. Despite the notoriously anti-Semitic rhetoric used by this group, UCLA will be directly facilitating...